I was recently invited to contribute an essay on the topic of “untranslatability” to the Poetry Foundation’s “Poets on Translation” series. The result was “Otherwise the Same,” which reaches back […] Read more ...

Nimrod has been around a long time — it was founded in 1956 — but in the past year or so it has received an exciting makeover under the stewardship […] Read more ...

I’m delighted to make my first appearance in Wendy Lesser‘s venerable Threepenny Review. The Spring issue (#181) includes my translation of a short, exquisite poem by Italian poet Paolo Febbraro. Read more ...

My translation of Marco Missiroli‘s moving Italian novel Avere tutto (“having everything”) — published in English as The Rabbit Punch — has just come out in the UK from Sceptre […] Read more ...

I’m delighted to have five new translations of Umberto Saba in the new issue of Waxwing, sandwiched between Sibelan Forrester‘s translation of an Elena Mikhailik poem and a Rilke poem […] Read more ...

A big thank-you to Chenxin Jiang for talking to me about my translation of Silvia Vecchini’s wonderful YA verse novel Before Nightfall. The interview is part of “Italian Lit Month,” […] Read more ...

I’m grateful to Lorna Knowles Blake for her kind review of After in the summer issue of the ever-excellent Hudson Review. Blake writes that “a father figure can cast a […] Read more ...

Elena Borelli has produced an excellent podcast about the Convivial Poems of Giovanni Pascoli. The seven episodes feature conversations with various Pascoli translators and scholars, including James Ackhurst, Maria Truglio, […] Read more ...

It was a pleasure to chat again with local legend Kyle Kellams, on his long-running show Ozarks at Large, about my three recent books: After (my new book of poems), […] Read more ...

Delighted to return to the pages of Ecotone — one of my favorite lit mags ever — with this quasi-villanelle from my new book, After. It’s a special issue on […] Read more ...